Amph [NERRRD] Observations, rhetorical questions, comments & 55 Years of Star Trek (General Thread)

If Picard was the exception by the best of Both Worlds, why did he constantly threaten the crew and the galaxy with assimilation?

 

I stand corrected. I remembered his "You will service us" line, which he said after "Resistance is futile." Still, the Borg are different in "Q Who?"

 

Ug, yeah, Code of Honor was horrible. This is why it's best to start from season 3 when going through the series in order, IMO.

Also, best quote ever from IQ-of-80-Yar:
"Lutan is such... such a basic male image and having him say he wants you..."
"Well, yes of course, it made me feel good when he... Troi, I'm your friend and you tricked me!"

And Crusher's nightmare featuring the corpses in the morgue coming back to life really freaked me out when I was younger, too. That was more Doctor Who-ish than TNG!

 

Yeah, if I had started with Season 1 I probably would have given up on TNG.

30. The Enterprise is a highly-maneuverable craft, certainly moreso than comparable naval vessels. I'm just wondering how the helm officer can twist and turn just by pressing a glass panel. Seems like it would be a lot more difficult than using a joystick (like Riker in Insurrection lol) or something.

 

Nothing bad happened when he left in "Family."

31. From the interviews I've seen on the DVD extras, Brent Spiner is awesome. I already knew that Levar Burton and Patrick Stewart are awesome.

32. Ronald D. Moore without the long hair and beard?!

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Noooooooo...

33. Remember when Rick Berman and Brannon Braga were really good at their jobs?

34. I always thought that Brannon Braga was a really weird name, like the name of an alien character in one episode.

35. Denise Crosby obviously regretted leaving the show; Michael Dorn thinks it was a wise choice.

36. Isn't it a funny coincidence that Ronald D. Moore wrote an episode featuring a ship named Pegasus and the amoral, slightly-crazy admiral who commanded it? ...I'm probably the only one who thinks that.

37. I've always thought that the season 2 episode "The Royale" is really underrated. To me it has a very interesting premise.

 

Actually, the Ambassador appears at least twice more in TNG after "Yesterday's Enterprise." One was called the Excalibur and another was the Zhukov.

The one at Wolf 359 was the Yamaguchi.

 

i like the way you roll dude, check it out, i made one with the armor on it and it's firing its megaphasers and it has a third nacelle on a rollbar between the other nacelles
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plus here it is firing while cloaked
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That's just about the greatest thing I've ever seen.

 

I always liked to think there was a couple touch pads like on laptops. Some shots of the helm panel showed big squares.

 

I am seeing in my mind a live action Zap Branigan pulling Sharon Stone's move in Basic Instinct.

I will now have nightmares...thank you.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if Zapp's uniform were at least partly inspired by the TNG skirt. They certainly parodied a lot from TOS and TNG, and I think I may have even spotted a few DS9 and Voyager references before.

38. This "recap" of "Sub Rosa" always gets me.

 

39. The woman from "Silicon Avatar" is creepy. I DID IT FOR YOU REMMY (or whatever his name was). And I'd forgotten that the Crystalline Entity had died.

40. [image=http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee234/Darth_Guy/riker.jpg] I didn't know this was from "A Matter of Perspective." It was when the scientist's wife gave her bull**** testimony. No wonder they reacted that way.

 

Badar.

Tebok.

Macet.

Frederick la Rouque.

...all good reasons why TNG existed.

 

Additional Nerd Fact: The Admiral was played by Terry O'Quinn, aka John Locke.

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Also...
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That was always my favorite thing to look for in the first 2 seasons.

 

Everton: All played by Marc Alai-whatever, I know. I don't think he was especially good, though. All the characters have basically the same personalities (cocky *******, except maybe the weird bearded guy), along with Dukat.

 

-mo.

Point is, had he not paid his dues with minor roles on TNG... the wonder that is Dukat might've been handed to a lesser mortal.

 

41. Leah Brahms Again, poor Geordi, although he got her in Q's (possibly) fabricated future!

42. The TNG characters frequently get reconstructive surgery on their faces in order to disguise themselves as aliens. Even considering the advanced medical technology, one would think that such frequency would have consequences.

 

Alaimo is great, but I'm still ambivalent about the character.

Years later, and I still can't decide whether or not I hate the episode where Sisko suddenly goes, "Dukat, you're just plain EVIL!" and that's all Dukat is from that point on.

 

He did become rather 1-dimensional toward the end, especially with the whole "Undercover Bajoran" thing.

And did anybody else just *hate* Kai Winn? I mean I know you're not supposed to love her character, but I just despised her so much...

And this has nothing to do with TNG, I know.

 

It was the way she treated the patients as Nurse Ratched wasn't it?

 

43. Instead of the normal LCARS format for the DVD menu, "The Best of Both Worlds" is styled Borg-like. *nerdgasm*